Arts and Literature
- March 17 - Bob Quinn's feature film Poitín, starring Cyril Cusack and made entirely in Irish, is first seen, on RTÉ Television.
- May 31 - Radio Telefís Éireann's national pop music radio station, RTÉ Radio 2, first airs; the old Radio Éireann is renamed RTÉ Radio 1.
- Dublin City Council's Civic Offices, designed in brutalist style by Sam Stephenson.
- Thomas Flanagan's novel The Year of the French is published.
- John McGahern's novel The Pornographer is published.
- Kate Cruise O'Brien is awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her short stories A Gift Horse.
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